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title: "Office space? Invest in Hackney: more local praise"
date: 2007-07-24T13:32:29Z
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![hackney](http://www.invest-in-hackney.org/images/aboutus_rollover.gif)

While I am doling out the praise another organisation I have been meaning to thank is [Invest In Hackney](http://www.invest-in-hackney.org/). Hackney is one of the poorest boroughs in London, but it is also by far one of the most vibrant. I live in Hackney, and my wife was born and bred here.

 When I was looking for a new office I initially thought [all I needed to do was Twitter](http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/06/14/ambient-intimacy-from-picking-fleas-to-eating-peas/). I tried [craigslist](http://london.craigslist.org/) and a host of expensive of serviced office agencies. During my searching I came across some property references to Invest In Hackney, so I thought why not phone them up? By the end of the call I was pretty unimpressed: apparently they would get back to me, _within a week_. Within a week??? A week later, still no office, and the email arrived. It was a good long list so I tried a few of the properties. Its worth noting the catchment area stretches all the way to Hoxton and Shoreditch because that is where I ended up: Hoxton Market. So thanks to Simon Dilly, Invest in Hackney and the [Renaisi](www.renaisi.com) regeneration agency. Good work: not only did you get me an office, but i am sharing, so you can also now boast that you brought one of the UK’s coolest startups, [dopplr](http://www.dopplr.com/), into Hackney too.